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Terry Breverton
Has history gone full circle? Was Richard III really as evil as Shakespeare would have us believe?
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The life of the king of England who defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and founded the glittering Tudor royal dynasty.
A uniquely accessible history of Wales through its landscape and built heritage.
A uniquely accessible history of the Welsh people.
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Reading through these words and phrases is an abbreviated trip through history, with lists of major naval mutinies, a summary of the slave trade, and even jokes. This dictionary is…
We discover that Wales gave us the most notorious pirate in Elizabethan times, John Callice of Tintern; Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, the greatest privateer of all time a century later…
The writing of this book became a detective story. It began as a straightforward modernised transcription of a condemned murderer’s confession, but contradictions had to be explored. Along the way…
The swashbuckling biography of the naval officer known as the Sword of England.
A compendium of facts, myths, and surprising secrets of the most infamous British royal family
This eclectic compendium will inform, inspire and fascinate anyone to know more about the moments of genius that gave shaped our lives today. An extraordinary guide to the greatest feats…
A superbly illustrated compendium of over 250 herbs, their properties and their uses.
A celebration of the world-wide contribution of one hundred Welsh women in fields of literature and the arts, politics and religion, philosophy and industry, pioneering and education, sport and entertainment…
A fascinating history of Tudor food and drink, from swan-neck soup to roasted-alive goose.
The first-ever biography of the founding father of the Tudor dynasty, a Welsh commoner who secretly married Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V.
A new and uniquely accessible history of Wales.
A new edition of a celebration of the world-wide contribution of one hundred Welsh men and women in fields of literature and the arts, politics and religion, philosophy and industry…
About the Book This is the first new and unexpurgated translation of Meddygon Myddfai, The Physicians of Myddfai, for over 150 years. The original mediaeval manuscripts are unique, being written…
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A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.
The first ever full-scale biography of the last native Prince of Wales who fought to maintain an independent Wales.
A superbly illustrated guide to the mysteries of myth, legend, and-gulp!-real life.
Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? A fascinating history of Tudor food and drink, from swan-neck soup to roasted-alive goose.
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A fascinating cornucopia of monsters and fabulous creatures from all corners of the world.
New paperback edition - Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? Explore within what the Tudors ate and drank in 250 authentic recipes.
An entertaining and well-researched volume tracing the highly exciting life of Bartholomew Roberts or Black Bart (1682-1722), the Pembrokeshire-born last great pirate whose travels from Britain to America and from…
A remarkable compendium of oddities, curiosities and little-known facts from the Great War, featuring the greatest battles, war slang, heroes and heroines, animals, spies, weapons, and much more.
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The first ever biography of Jasper Tudor, the only man who fought from the first battle of the Wars of the Roses to the last and lived to forge a…
A compendium of facts, myths, and surprising secrets of the most infamous British royal family.
What the Tudors ate and drank in 250 authentic recipes
The Man Who Made the Tudor Dynasty
From anti-slavery heroes and privateers to evil murderers, from Viking longships to Somali raiders today, the 1000-year roll call of the pirates.
New paperback edition - The first-ever biography of the founding father of the Tudor dynasty, a Welsh commoner who secretly married Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V.
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Terry Breverton,William Williams
This long-forgotten factional novel was the literary sensation of its day. The Poet Laureate Robert Southey said of it ‘Truth is often stranger than falsehood; and so it is in…
